FARMING NOTES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5360, 18 February 1916, Page 6

FARMING NOTES.

To arrive at the cultural value of any seed, it is necessary not only to know the percentage of pure seed present, bnt also the germination capacity of the latter. And here again it is important to urge that it is not merely the proportion of seods which manage to germinate, but rather the nature or quality of the germination, which is the real measure of the valuo of the seed. For example, a sample of perennial rye-grass, which germinates up to 00 por cent, in the course of 16 days, is not nearly so good as a sample which gives a germination of 00 per cent in six days, other tilings being equal. American records in butter fat prod notion are only made one day to bo broken the next. The latest prodigy is a Holstein, Fridorne Holingon Fayne, which lias produced in 365 days 24,6121 b milk and 11161 b butter fat. She was milked four times a day by the same milker all through, and also had the same feeder. She reoeivod 1711> of grain daily for the first six months, and this wns gradually reduced to 131 b. In addition, she had 201 b maize silage, some beet pulp and mangolds, and all the natural grass hay she would eat. The test was conducted at the New Jersey Agricultural College, commencing when the cow was three years and four and a half months old. She weighed, at the end of the test, 14501 b, having gained 2001 b since the beginning.